Today's News

On March 24, Weyherhauser’s Cool Springs Environmental Center was host to the Coastal Envirothon on the banks of Swift Creek.

The Envirothon is a hands-on environmental education program for teams of high school and middle school students.

The Area 5 and 6 Soil and Water Conservation Districts, the N.C. Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts, Weyerhaeuser, NUCOR, Georgia Pacific, Pepsi, Coke, Natur Chem and local farm bureaus sponsored the program.

It is finally spring and starting to feel like it. If you are a Brunswick County fisherman, you can now come out of hiding.

March is a great month, but it has a tendency to show all the signs of spring and then leave you hanging with water temperatures that are typically still too cool to promote much good fishing. However, April is here and the water is warming up.

Ocean Isle Fishing Center inshore guide, Capt. Kyle, has been reporting good catches of redfish and speckled trout. He is optimistic about the inshore fishing over the next couple of months.

About 15 months ago, I wrote about the Brunswick Community College Horticulture and Turfgrass Management Program and their new, on-campus facility.

This past week, I revisited BCC and talked again with Dean Bennett, director of the program, and Jace Myers, turfgrass instructor. My interest had been piqued because students from the turf school had been at Cinghiale Creek (home of The First Tee of Brunswick County) since January building a huge new bunker next to the south green.

SHALLOTTE—Two suspects were arrested after a sheriff’s deputy witnessed an alleged drug transaction between the two suspects in Walmart’s parking lot last week.

According to Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Agent Joe Cherry, both suspects fled when confronted by the deputy.

Brian Ray Mobley, 44, of 2875 Paddlewheel Trail, Supply and Orrey Palmer Clemmons, 44, of 1040 Hewett Road, Supply, were both arrested Tuesday, March 24, and taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center.